Hello,
Could anybody advise on good personal electronics website?

Hello Guy, regarding the problem of answering Skype phone calls on a Bluetooth headset while you are unthethered from Skype... we might have a solution for you...

www.skypeheadset.co.uk

Best regards,
Stuart

Edited by author 03-15-2005 10:55 AM
 
Problems:
OK, let's look at them!

- linux compatibility
Yeah. That's always an issue with phones. I'll grant you; if I get a phone that won't run Linux, it drives me nuts.

Not! :-)
- wireless range
A DECT phone is a home phone. Range is supposed to be as far as your walls go. Why would we want more?

- having a noisy computer on 24/7
But why? Skype works over broadband, and this phone works on Skype, or over DECT.

Well, DECT is just cordless telephony, so no computer. Broadband just sits there, humming not at all, at your telephone line. You don't turn your PC on.

Have I missed something?

Problems:

- linux compatibility
- wireless range
- having a noisy computer on 24/7; embedded anyone

Skype over wireless - it's here!

Siemens is first to produce a DECT phone which works with Skype and this article points to a review of the system.

It seems to work.

Edited by author 02-27-2005 10:10 AM
This reminds me of the time Jabra announced Bluetooth for the original Orange/Microsoft SPV. The phone itself has no Bluetooth, and cannot have it for sound technical reasons (fixed with the E200 version) - but it does have an audio socket at the bottom; so Jabra announced an audio-to-audio Bluetooth device. Clever. They have so far failed to let us test it, mind...

So take Skype. It's another computer calling you. How do you receive calls when you're away from your PC?

Easy. You connect your computer to the phone line; and when a Skype call comes to it, it dials your mobile, and puts the call through.

There! Wireless Skype!

Impressed?